Royalty-Free Music & Sounds

What’s “Royalty-Free”?

If you’re looking for music or sound effects (SFX) to use in your films, it’s important to make sure they’re royalty-free. This means that you can use them without having to pay royalties (a fee) to their creator.

If you’re tempted to use a song in your film, be aware that they may be copyrighted, and video services like YouTube will be able to detect them and remove your video from their platform.

To be safe, it’s always a good idea to use royalty-free music in your films. Below are some sources where you can download them.

Music

 Free Music

• Free Music Archive

• Incompetech (requires log-in)

• Mixkit

• Uppbeat (requires log-in)

• NoCopyrightSounds (requires log-in)

• Purple Planet

• Silverman Sound

• Tunetank (requires log-in)

• YouTube Audio Library (requires log-in)

Paid Music

• Artlist ($199 USD/year)

• Audiio ($199 USD/year)

• Epidemic Sound ($144 USD/year)

• Filmstro ($99 USD/year)

• Musicbed ($239.88 USD/year)

• Music Vine ($239.88 USD/year)

• Soundstripe ($149 USD/year)

Sound Effects (SFX)

Free SFX

• BBC Sound Effects

• FreeSFX (requires log-in)

• Freesound (requires log-in)

• Free Sound Effects

• Mixkit

• Pixabay

• Zapslat (requires log-in)